Quote of the day
A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair;
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Diogenes Laërtius
Born: 180
Died: 240 (aged 60)
Bio: Diogenes Laertius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of Greek philosophy.
Known for:
- Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- The Stoics
- Sayings of Diogenes the Cynic
Diogenes Laërtius Quotes